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QSOS Interview with Jen Hewett conducted by Lisa Woolfork, presented by Quilt Alliance

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Join us for a Quilters’ Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview with printmaker, surface designer, textile artist, and author Jen Hewett. Lisa Woolfork, founder of Black Women Stitch and the Stitch Please podcast, will serve as the QSOS interviewer.

QSOS is an oral history project founded in 1999 by the nonprofit Quilt Alliance. It is the largest collection of first-hand accounts of quiltmaking, both present-day and in living memory, in the world. Our archive for the digital recordings is the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. The original audio recordings and photographs are archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. You can read and listen to QSOS interviews on the project website here: http://qsos.quiltalliance.org/gallery

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Mar 15, 2023 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Mar 15, 2023 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: QSOS Interview with Jen Hewett conducted by Lisa Woolfork, presented by Quilt Alliance Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zJPtN_jJR9SWiEl3iMo2wg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Jen Hewett Jen Hewett is a printmaker, surface designer, textile artist, and author based in the Hudson Valley. Jen’s work combines her love of loud prints, 1970s maximalism, and saturated colors with the textures and light of the landscapes that surround her. In addition to creating her own products, Jen designs fabric for the quilting and home sewing market, and home collections for national manufacturers and retailers. Her clients include: Moda Fabrics, World Market, Anthropologie, Blue Sky Planners, and Brewster Home Fashions. She is the author of Print, Pattern, Sew, and This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community and Connection. Website: jenhewett.com Shop: shop.jenhewett.com Instagram: @jenhewett Lisa Woolfork Lisa Woolfork is a sewist, podcaster, community organizer and scholar. She is the founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black Lives Matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she became a founding member of Black Lives Matter Charlottesville. This group protested against the white supremacist insurgency that had taken hold of the Virginia city. She organized in a variety of ways including nonviolent direct action, working with a bail fund for activists, sewing for a creative arts team, and co-founding a media collective. A fourth-generation sewing enthusiast, she has spoken about the connections between Black liberation and craft for the Smithsonian’s African American Craft Summit, the Modern Quilt Guild, the Center for Craft, Architectural Digest and more.

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